xilix
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I don't how else to explain this. It's a fairly simple concept. Please pay attention..
A claim-is a claim-is a claim. If someone says their product is able to do something, and it doesn't, that is called a lie. AKA false advertisement. There is absolutely nothing subjective about that at all. If I told a client that I'm able to do a certain effect or technique, and they paid me $1500 bucks to do it, I better do it, or I'm getting sued. Objectively sued. People pay me for my ABILITY to edit professional looking videos at a rock bottom price. I advertise that I'm able to do it. Therefor I HAVE to produce that result, time and again, or my clients would dissapear. I'm very educated in advertising, I've studied it, I make money doing it, and so do my clients by using the promo's I edit. Just like people buy R/C cars because of their individual abilities. Redcat racing claims their new buggy is able to achieve 70+mph. If I bought this buggy I would expect nothing less (give or take maybe 4-5mph depending on weather conditions).
Nowhere--not anywhere does Redcat Racing actually provide proof to their claims, and they don't have the dependable reputation that Traxxas or Associated ect. ect. does. That reputation is to be earned. And reputations aren't earned by feeding people lies. That is the bottom line. It's not subjective, it is completely objective. Either it can do 70mph or it can't. Either it's able to or it's not. And finally, if it's able to, it will. There is no gray area here. If I buy something I expect it to do what the company says it's able to do, or I'm returning it. Period. This is the nature of business.
Here is an example: The 1999 Mustang SVT Cobra was advertised at 320hp at the crank. John Q. Public dynoed the car, and the car fell short. Ford recalled every single SVT Cobra made from that batch and installed new heads and intake manifolds, among other things, for free. Otherwise they would've had one hell of a class action law suit on their hands. Ford didn't turn around and say their performance claims were subjective, and therefor change for every person reading it. Of course, we are talking about toys here and not real cars, but the fact remains that a claim is a claim, and the product must live up to that claim, otherwise it's considered to be false, and therefor is grounds for false advertisement.
What would you do if our government said that our constitution and the bill of rights were subjective, and could be interpreted any way they want, so that they could put you in jail for literally anything because your rights are completely subjective? Subjectivity falls into catagory's like art, music, photography, film, poetry ect. ect.. Not claims for a product and certainly not our rights as Americans.
I'm not flaming you here, so please don't take what's written here the wrong way. We all love the same hobby, lets not get heated over this. For future reference you should use notepad/wordpad to write a long reply, or use Opera (www.opera.com), it's a free browser (the best in my opinion), and even if your session times out, you can hit the back button and your text will still be there for you to copy and paste.
As for this debate, I've said really all I can say about the performance claims. I can't explain it any better if I tried. I'm just trying to get some verfied data as to how fast these buggies and trucks really are. That's all.
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ORIGINAL: maxxhavoc
man!!! i had a great rebut going and the system timed out! anyway the point of the whole thing is still advertising is subjective to each person reading the claims. if you wanna believe, then you do if you dont, well then you dont. man im upset, i had a freaking novel going  thats it in a nutshell.
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